Performing The “Arab”

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By Tania El Khoury This text is based on a presentation given by the author at Fem Fresh event at Queen Mary University in London in 2014 and was published in the Kohl Journal for Body & Gender Research in 2016. During the wave of uprisings that swept through the regions of the Middle East… Read more »

Read This: an overview of contemporary arts in Lebanon

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In March of 2017, IETM—international network for contemporary performing arts, Brussels—published “Contemporary Performing Arts in Lebanon: an overview” by Emmanuel Haddad, a sweeping look at the art making, and the politics of art making, in Lebanon. Haddad notes, “For the Lebanese establishment, culture, as the poet Nazem al-Sayed wrote in 2008, is just a more… Read more »

Incomplete Without You: the works of ear-whispered

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Tania El Khoury’s work is incomplete without you. Unlike more conventional theatre and performance, her live art work* comes alive through audience interaction. In Stories of Refuge, audience members recline on bunk beds, evoking an image of prisons and refugee camps; in Gardens Speak, they listen to accounts of the lives and the last moments of Syrian martyrs, becoming recumbent inhabitants of a graveyard themselves.

Gardens Speak

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Gardens Speak

When
September 12–16, 19–23

Where
Bryn Mawr College
Hepburn Teaching Theater in Goodhart Hall
150 N Merion Ave, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010

About

Gardens Speak is an immersive sound installation in which audience members are invited to lie down to listen to the oral histories of people who were killed in the early days of the Syrian uprising and buried in private and public gardens. Purchase Tickets

Tell Me What I Can Do

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Tell Me What I Can Do

When
September 12-16, 19-23

Where
Bryn Mawr College
Common Room in Goodhart Hall
150 N Merion Ave, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010

About
In this new work commissioned for ear-whispered, El Khoury has created an installation from the archive of letters written by audiences during the international touring of Gardens Speak, also featured at Bryn Mawr College.

Free Event

Camp Pause

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Camp Pause

When
September 12–16, 19–23 (extends September 24–December 14)

Where
Bryn Mawr College
Rare Book Room in Canaday Library, 1st Floor
101 N Merion Ave, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010

About
The Dictaphone Group filmed four residents of the Rashidieh Refugee Camp on the coast of Lebanon—a camp that has existed for generations. Residents weave narratives about the history of the land, their arrival, the struggle to build, and their relationship to the sea.

Free Event